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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Interview: Lynne & Michael of Uncanny Magazine

Uncanny is a likely a familiar name to many readers, particularly of Charles' excellent Monthly Round. Now entering its third year, they are running a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. The editors, Lynne & Michael, took the time to answer a few questions about the magazine and campaign:

We’ve
discovered that we have different communities of readers with different
preferences, so we try to provide whatever way they prefer to support us.

The best part of any Kickstarter
campaign is the rewards- what goodies are there for backers?

Along with
our fabulous eBooks of the Uncanny
issues, we are offering numerous backer rewards includingA Very Special Verity! Multifandom Podcast
Mashup episode recorded just for our
backers featuring Special Guest Appearances from members of the Radio Free Skaro and Down & Safe podcasts, autographed
books, manuscript critiques, author video chats, author meals, cover art prints,
and even becoming a Guest of Honor at the first UncannyCon!

Uncanny has published a lot of great stories in just two years - What can we
expect from year three?

UncannyYear 3 has an amazing group of solicited short
story writers including Paul Cornell, John Chu, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo
Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Mary Robinette Kowal, Seanan McGuire, Sam J. Miller,
Sarah Pinsker, Delia Sherman, Ursula Vernon, Catherynne M. Valente, Alyssa Wong
(with art by Grace P. Fong), and Isabel Yap.We will also be opening up to short story submissions again soon, so we
will once again feature many newer voices from every conceivable background.

And speaking of great stories, Uncanny is nominated for more than a few
awards- how does it feel to be at that level so quickly? Even with such a
stellar editing staff, it's quite an accomplishment.

We are truly
humbled. It is such an huge honor to have all of this award attention for works
from our first year. We didn’t expect that level of appreciation so soon. We
are giddy that these stellar works and creators are being read and appreciated.
We are so happy for our staff, writers, and artists.

With all that you've accomplished in
those first two years, how does Year Three top that?

We feel that
we keep growing as editors and publishers, so hopefully each issue is better
than the one before it.

If we reach
certain stretch goals in the Kickstarter, we’re also planning on increasing our
website content with more paid blogging.